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State Magazine, a monthly publication of the U.S. Department of State, has just highlighted John Savage among several prominent Jefferson Science Fellows, citing his efforts in having "[created] new courses on international affairs and technology, advised students on ways to combine science with public service and developed new research partnerships and directions". (John received ...

Writing for Lawfare, Timothy Edgar, a Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute, offers an astute and even at times humorous analysis of the implications that the recent Yates v. United States decision has for national security surveillance. The article is available here.

Michael Chang, a junior at Brown University concentrating in computer
engineering, has just been selected for the Kleiner Perkins Caufield and
Byers (KPCB) Fellows Program, one of technology’s most prestigious
fellowships. He’ll be spending the summer working for Shape Security, a
firm that creates dynamic security architecture to defend web sites
against malware ...

Working with colleagues from the University of Southampton and National Information and Communications Technology Australia (NICTA), Victor Naroditskiy PhD '09 has published findings that reveal a downside to crowdsourcing, particularly when competition is involved.

Beginning with the discovery that the openness of crowdsourcing makes it vulnerable to malicious behavior, the researchers arrive at some unexpected ...

Writing for Communications of the ACM, Esther Shein has just interviewed Shriram Krishnamurthi among several programming language experts on the subject of Python as an introduction to coding. Going beyond some of the remarks made by his fellow interviewees, Shriram not only offers an analysis of Python's weaknesses (limited support for testing) and strengths ...

In the "Smart News in East Side Education" section of their latest issue, East Side Monthly recognized PhD candidate Gryte Satas for her leadership with the local chapter of Girls Who Code, a national
organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology and
engineering by equipping girls with skills and resources to pursue
opportunities ...

It’s taken
just a few decades for the Internet to sweep the globe as an economic,
cultural, and political force. The question now is how and by whom
should this border-spanning technology be governed. John Savage,
professor of computer science at Brown University, addressed the issue ...